Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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1 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
2 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
3 | let them pull a cow collar , wi it was what they call cow collar learn , the way to learn them . |
4 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
5 | Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing . |
6 | ‘ You let them learn a lot of experience through themselves , ’ one of the older officers said . |
7 | Just le lea you 're leading them home so let them pick a bit of grass and then you go on into the yard and I 'll give them the breakfast , they have their breakfast and while they 're eating their breakfast you 're doing your horse and you get finished and then you go and have yours . |
8 | Let them have a prospectus to take away with them and if they have already decided to bring their child to your school take the minimum of details at this stage . |
9 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
10 | You 'd people think it 's easy let them have a go at it . |
11 | We 'll eat stra virtually fairly soon and then let them have a look at them . |
12 | Well , let them have a go at you , you do n't have to do what they say . |
13 | Let me open a new chapter and tell another story . |
14 | Finally , let me end a long , but hopefully not tedious , list of routes with a real gem from Skye . |
15 | And then Mr erm oh let me watch a Queen video . |
16 | Let me present a medley of these edifying yarns . |
17 | Let me let me cite a commercial organization which , to give you an idea , I know you 're not commercial in that particular sense , of what we 're talking about . |
18 | Let me outline a few of the obstacles : |
19 | So before you turn to your itinerary , let me explain a little further . |
20 | Chantal said : ‘ Let me telephone a friend of my father . |
21 | Let me suggest a new way to handle your clients . |
22 | All right , let me suggest a possibility . |
23 | They let me wear a maternity dress then , because I had n't worn one up till then . |
24 | Let me give a few illustrations . |
25 | Let me give a brief application . |
26 | To illustrate this approach , let me give a very simple example . |
27 | Let me give a classic example from another branch of biology . |
28 | Let me give a few examples : I can will knowledge but not wisdom ; going to bed but not sleeping ; eating but not hunger … self-assertion but not courage … reading but not understanding … |
29 | Let me give a concrete example of what I mean . |
30 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |